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Elizabeth Warren honors black women in speech disrupted by pro-charter school protestors - The Boston Globe

posted onNovember 22, 2019
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Article snippet: ATLANTA — Senator Elizabeth Warren took the stage in a gymnasium of a historically black university on Thursday and delivered a sweeping broadside against institutional racism that singled out the experiences of black women, a key constituency as she seeks the Democratic presidential nomination. “When I am president of the United States, the lessons of black history will not be lost,” Warren said at Clark Atlanta University. “Those lessons will live in every part of my presidency – and I will ask you to hold me accountable for that promise every single day.” It was a marquee event meant to highlight the racial justice themes woven into Warren’s campaign, delivered on a day that her rivals for the Democratic nomination criss-crossed the city after Wednesday’s debate here in an effort to shore up support from African American voters. But Warren’s event was thrown temporarily off kilter shortly after it began when a diverse group of adults wearing t-shirts reading “Powerful Parent Network” stood up in the bleachers to chant “Our children, our choice,” in protest of her plan to end federal funding for charter schools. The demonstration’s organization runs an education group that draws funding from the Walton family — the pro-charter school founders of Wal-Mart — and the protest created a dramatic distraction from Warren’s message. But it also proved how valuable an ally Warren has in Massachusetts Representative Ayanna Pressley, who stepped in to defuse the situatio... Link to the full article to read more

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